The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, September 08, 1910, Image 3

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Queer Notions Held by People of
Different Countries Regard
ing the Bow
In many countries the rainbow is
spoken of as being a great bent pump
or siphon tube drawing water from
the earth by mechanical means In
parts of Russia in the Don country
and also in Moscow and vicinity it
is known by a name which is equiva
lent to the bent water pipe In
nearly all Slavonic dialects it is
known by terms signifying the cloud
siphon and in Hungary it is the
pump Noahs pump and Gods
pump The Malayan natives call ir
hy the same name that they do their
manded water cobra only that they
add boba meaning double headed
the equivalent in our language being
the double headed water snake
They tell you that the bow is a real
thing of life that it drinks with its
two mouths and that the water is
transferred to the clouds through an
opening in the upper side of the cen
tre of the great arch In the province
of Charkav Russia the rainbow is
said to drain the wells and to prevent
this many are provided with heavy
tight fitting stone platforms
In the province of Saratov the bow
Not Then j
Bacon I see a patent has been i
granted for an attachment to rocking
chairs to operate a fan to cool the
occupants
Egbert And when a man goes into
the dark room and stubs his toe
against the rocker we do not think
the new attachment will cool him off
any Yonkers Statesman
The Common Notion
Whats your idea of success
Getting 50 for a nickels worth of
work
Ci
Theodore
Governor Hughes the Legislature and
Primary Reform
Reprinted from an article by Theodore Roosevelt in The Outlook by special
arrangement with Tho Outlook of which Theodore Roosevelt Is Contributing
Editor Copyright 1910 by The Outlook Company All Rlchta Reserved
55
BELIEVE that Governor
Hughes has been support
ed by the bulk of the wis
est and most disinterested
public opinion as regards
most of his measures and
positions and I think that this has
been markedly the case as regards
direct primary nominations I know
that many honest and sincere men
are on principle opposed to Governor
Hughes on this point and I know also
that the proposed reform will very
possibly accomplish less than its ex
treme advocates expect while I am
well aware as of course all thinking
men must be that the worth of any
such measure In the last resort de
pends upon the character of the vot
ers and that no patent device will
ever secure good government unless
the people themselves devote suffi
cient energy time and judgment to
make the device work Finally I
freely admit that here and there
where the principle of direct nomina
tions has been applied in too crude
shape or wrongheadedly it has while
abolishing certain evils produced or
accentuated others in certain cases
for instance putting a premium upon
the lavish expenditure of money
But while I freely admit all this I
nevertheless feel in the first place
that on the fundamental issue of di
rect primary nominations the Gover
nor is right and in the second place
that as the measure finally came up
for action in the state legislature it
was well nigh free from all objections
save those of the men who object to
It because they are fundamentally op
posed to any change whatever in the
desired direction The bill provided
only for direct popular action in the
primaries in relatively small geo
graphical and political communities
thereby making the experiment first
where there was least liability to se
rious objection and avoiding or defer
ring the task of dealing with those big
communities where the difficulties and
dangers to be overcome would be
greatest Moreover while guarantee
ing full liberty of individual action it
also provided for the easy mainte
naance of party organization and
thereby avoided some very real dan
geis among them that of encourag
ing the use of masses of the minority
party in any given district to dictate
the actions of the majority party In
other words the proposed bill while
it marked a very real step in advance
was tentatively and qaytiously fram
ed and provided all possible safe
guards against abuses If in practice
it had failed to work in any particu
lar there would have been no possible
difficulty in making whatever amend
ments or changes were necessary
The Republican party was in the
i
IDEAS ABOUT THE R J BOW
majority In both houses of the legis
lature which refused to carry out the
Republican governors recommenda
tions and although it was only a
minority of the Republican members
which brought about this refusal the
party cannot escape a measure of re
sponsibility for the failure but it is
only just to remember that a clear
majority of the Republican members
of each house supported the bill
whereas three fourths or over of the
Democrats opposed It This is one
of the cases where it is easier to ap
portion individual than party responsi
bility
Those who believe that by thei
action they have definitely checked
the movement for direct popular pr
maries are in my judgment mistakes
In its essence this is a movement tc
make the government more demo
cratic more responsive to the wish11
and needs of the people as a whole
With our political machinery it is e
sential to have an efficient party by
the machinery ought to be suited t
democratic and not oligarchic custom
and habits The question whether i
u seii Koverninc republic we shall
have self governing parties is largn j tni nw clow
than the particular bill We hold tha
the right of popular self government is
Incomplete unless it includes the right
of the voters not merely to choose be
tween candidates when they have
been nominated but also the right to
determine who these candidates shall
be Under our system of party gov
ernment therefore the voters should
be guaranteed the right to determine
within the ranks of their respective
organizations who the candidates of
the parties will be no less than the
right to choose between the candi I
dates when the candidates are pre
sented them There is no desire to
break down the responsibility of
party organization under duly consti
tute party leadership but there is a
desire to make this responsibility real
and to give the members of the party j
tho Tight to scy whom they desire to
execute this leadership In New York
state no small part of the strength of
the movement has come from the pop
ular conviction that many of the men
most prominent in party leadership
tend at times to forget than in a
democracy the function of a political
leader must normally be to lead not
to drive We the men who compose
the great bulk of the community wish I
to govern ourselves We welcome
leadership but we wish our leaders
to understand that they derive their
strength from us and that although
we look to them for guidance we ex
pect this guidance to be in accord
ance with our interests and our
ideals
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Is said to be under the control of three
angels one of whom pumps the water
the second feeds the clouds and
the third sends the rain Many im
probable and Impossible things would
happen if you could only get in reach
of the bow
The little Turk is told that if he
would have a silver head with gold
teeth and ruby eyes he has but to
touch the orange stripe In Greece
they say that the person so unfortu
nate as to stumble over the end of the
bow will have his or her sex imme
diately changed
Only Classified
I confess to being rather particular
about my pajamas said the fastidi
ous man and I had an experience
last week that nearly gave me nervous
prostration until I saw the humor of
the situation I was staying in a little
country town down in Maryland and
it was necessary to send some soiled
clothing to the laundry the one laun
dry of which the village boasted
Judge of my surprise when my
stuff was returned to me to find that
my pajamas had been heavily
starched with decided creases ironed
down in front I was not only en
raged but mystified as well until in
looking over the bill I came to this
item
One tennis suit 35 cents
Had a Native Gift for It
Artist Ah Giles good morning I
want you to come and give me a
few sittings some time I suppose
you can sit
Giles Can I set Lor 3es like
an old hen
A Plunge Into the Prosaic
See the beautiful sunset colors on
the water said the poetic young
woman
Im glad to know what they are
replied the near sighted man I
thought the bathing suits had faded
TRACING COUNTERFEITS
Exciting Employment For Skilled Se
cret Service Men
The tracing of counterfeit bills back
to the persons responsible for thoir is
sue Is u ciirloiiH nud exciting employ
ment The expert assigned by the
government to this work ure among
the most skillful members of the se
cret service The protection of the
rurrenrr depends In large measure up
on their etlieleney und the pains they
Hike are almost infinite The follow
ing case Is one illustrating the diffi
culties which the secret service people
meet mid overcome
A lunik clerk in Cleveland had de
tected 11 counterfeit twenty dollar hill
In the deposit of n small retail grocer
An expert was sent for and under
took the case
lie found that the grocer had re
ceived the bill from n shoe dealer who
had It from a dentist who had it from
somebody else and so on until the
secret service man finally traced the
had note to an Invalid woman who
had used it to pay her physician
When questioned thh woman said that
tho money bad been sent her by her
brother who lived In New Orleans
Tho sleuth looked up the brothers
antecedents nud soon became con
vinced that he was the man wanted
The brother however soon proved to
the satisfaction of the secret service
man that his suspicions were unfound
ed Indeed it appeared thnt the mon
ey had been received by the New Or
leans man in part payment for rent
of a house he owned In Pittsburg
While the sleuth was a bit discour
aged he couldnt give over the case
when he had gone so far so he took
the next train for Pittsburg
The tenant of the house in Pitts
burg1 proved to be a traveling oculist
who spent most of his time In the mid
dle west The secret service man had
the good luck however to catch him
just as he had returned from a trip
and the man at once recognized the
bad bill as one that had been given
him by a patient in Cleveland the
very point whence the sleuth started
The patient was a boss carpenter
The secret service man got his address
from the oculist and went right after
At this point he had a
premonition that something was going
to happen and be wasnt disappointed
The carpenter an honest old fellow
said that be had received the bill from
a certain Parker The said Parker
was the small grocer in whose bank
deposit the counterfeit bad turned up
The expert flew to the grocers as
quickly as a cab could take him and
found it closed He had left town
Afterward it was shown beyoud
question that the grocer was the agent
of an organized band of counterfeiters
His shop was a mere blind That the
bill which he pave the carpenter
should yet hack into his own funds
after traveling all over the continent
was one of those miracles of chance
for which there is no explanation
Chicago Record Hera id
A Dean Ramsay Story
Dean Ramsays memoirs contain an
anecdote of an old woman of Starth
spey Just before her death she sol
emnly instructed her grandnephew
Willy Im deein aud as yeII hae the
Interest In Ancient Days
As a rule the ancients frowned upon
the idea of interest They called it
usury and except in the case of
wardships and trusts when the law
insisted upon money being usefully in
vested they looked upon the man who
lived by investments as a bad char
acter and his trade as a disreputable
one Even Aristotle a most advanced
thinker in many respects talked most
energetically against money calling it
a barren thing which could produce
nothing without violating nature It
was not until the crusades that the
money lender had any standing or re
spectability in Europe New York
American
Sunday Traveling
Old time acts of parliament in Great
Britain aimed to stop Sunday travel
ing In 1500 for example two men
were found guilty of the crime of
walking from Bristol to Bath on a
Sunday and were at once fined 20 shil
lings i4S0 each All business was at
a standstill on a Sunday Nothing
was allowed to be sold except milk
For all the traders of England the
milkman and the milkman alone was
allowed to pursue his calling for the
whole seven days of the week
Easy
Is that car on this train
No he was switched off at the junc
tion
He was Why not she
This was a mail car Toledo
Blade
He Knew the Brand
First Actor When I was in Africa I
was nearly killed by the bursting of a
shell Second Actor Oh who threw
the egg Loudon M A P
Pure love cannot merely do all but
Is all Richter
A Pacific Coast Trip
Continued from last week
Leaving Seattle on S S Princess
Victoria about 9 a mf you travel 81
much of it loaded into ships for for-
charge o a 1 have mind now that as i ejgn countries
much whisky Is to no used at my Mi
neral as there was at my baptism
Willy having no record of the quan
tity consumed at the baptism decided
to give every mourner as much us be
wished with the result that the fu
neral procession having to traverse
ten miles to the churchyard on a short
November day arrived only at night
fall Then it was discovered that the
mourners halting at a wayside inn
had rested the coffin on a dike and
left it there when they resumed their
journey The corpse was a day late
in arriving at the grave
would know were there until pointed
out to you The guns are all disap
pearing and to the casual observer
nothing of interest would be noticed
on these commanding points Arriv
ing at Victoria B C about noon of
June 2Cth we stopped at the King
Edward hotel for lunch and engaged
rooms for the night In the after
noon visited many points of interest
including the Admiralty Victoria navy
yard and some of the war ships of
Great Britain In dry dock was the
steel passenger S S Yucatan which
was wrecked off the coast of Seward
Peninsula Alaska and while she lay
there on the rocks the waves swept
her decks clean of every thing She
was being fixed up so she could go
under her own steam to Portland for
125000 repairs
Victoria is a left handed city all
vehicles taking the left hand side of
the street Pedestrians in meeting
turn to the left and teams when at
rest stand in middle of street instead
of by curb
Monday morning went down to the
dock near where stands the old
fur warehouse of the Hudson Bay Co
built in 1620
We took the steamer Beatrice own
ed by the Michigan Pacific Lumber
Co of which Coleman Cochran and
Moore are one third owners having
sold two third interest to New York
capitalists for 7C0000 and sailed to
their logging camp 30 miles up the
coast on the British side Arriving st
camp those of the party who had
stood the rough voyage on the straits
took a walk into the big woods 3200
acres of which are owned by this
company and after a stroll of two
hours returned to camp and enjoyed 3
splendid dinner served by a good
Chinese cook After dinner a little
walk to the mouth of the Jordan riv
er and back along the beach past a
little camp of Siwash Indians com
pleted the day
Next morning with a delightfully
cool sea breeze blowing took a more
extensive trip into the timber and
saw logging in its entirety Three
donkey engines in as many different
places were snaking logs through the
timber in some cases a quarter of
a mile the huge logs some of them
six feet through and 40 feet long
plowing their way through brush
roots and dirt but coming right
along up onto the platform where
they are rolled onto cars with the
same engine
These log trains are taken down to
the pier with geared road engines
and the logs dumped into the ocean
put into booms and towed to Victoria
to the saw mill cut into lumber and
One ship a four-
masted sailing vessel was loading
with three million feet of lumber for
the East Indies The timber is very
thick on the ground This company
is working about 500 men at the mill
and in the timber and by working
diligently will have this 32000 acres
nearly cut in a hundred years
Their saw mill at Victoria is very
extensive and complete in appoint
ment
The ride from camp back to Victor
ia by moonlight was very pleasant
and a visit to parliament building
j quite interesting Victoria is a plea
sant clean city J H Moore is gen
eral manager of the lumber company
and is building a new home in Victor
ia C A Ward has the contract and
is putting up a fine building which
will be finished about September 1st
The voyage from Victoria to Seat
tle on the Princess Charlotte was
perfect Regrading Seattle is very
extensive some of the hills being
taken down 105 feet The growth of
the city in last eight years is re
markable and many fortunes will he
made in this as yet undeveloped
country Seattle with her Alaska and
oriental trade is destined to become
a great city and has the finest pro
tected deep water harbor in the
world
The journey from Seattle to Spo
kane is through good country farms
look prosperous Spokane is a good
business city and quite up to date
Taking an electric car fourteen
miles to Greenacres we found Mr
and Mrs C B Sawyer nicely located
on their splendid fruit farm and had
a very nice visit with them and also
with their daughter Kathryn who
was home on a little visit Mr Saw
yer has one of the cleanest and
nicest orchards that we saw on our
trip
Leaving Spokane in the evening
reached Missoula about eight oclock
next morning and spent the day
there Expected to visit Dr J H
Hares ranch in the Bitter Root val
ley but missed our train and put
in the day seeing the town The ride
from Missoula to Sheridan is through
the Crow agency and past the histor
ical Custer battle field marked by
many monuments The stars and
stripes are kept flying there At
Sheridan as guests of J R Sirclumb
and family we had a very pleasant
visit and in a quito way celebrated
the Glorious Fourth A little visit
with Felix Kennedy and family and
miles among islands seeing different
Fred Fuller and family and other
it
towns and fortifications that you nevir fplfttlflo m
uo uiiiuu mc uiij uuij too aiiuri
Sherldan is a first rate good town
and Is growing rapidly Its beauti
fully laid out park is n great credit
to the city Taking the afternoon
train continuing on through Alliance
Sterling and Brush accompanied by
Mrs C E Pope we arrived homo
completing our very delightful va
cation much richer in knowledge of
the great northwest
THE END
Only a Dollar Now
The Lincoln Daily Journal has cut
its price to a dollar from now until
January 1 1911 without the Sunday
The big Sunday paper will be added
for only a quarter extra therefore
most people will no doubt take the
125 worth This makes an exceeding
ly low price during a specially inter
esting time as nearly every family
will want a Lincoln paper during the
next few months The State Journals
reputation as a free independent
clean newspaper will prove of special
advantage during the warm campaign
now begun The paper stops when the
time is up without any notice from
you whatever so that you see it is io
plan to get you started and then force
the paper on you
Bixby the poet philosopher of The
Journal is worth the price of admis
sion himself State telegraph is a
strong feature and sporting cranks are
well satisfied The thing above all
others is the fact that when you see
anything political in The Journal that
its for the benefit of the people at
large and not for the selfish political
interest of the owners No booze ads
no nasty medical ads no fraudulent
investment schemes Fact is its the
kind of a paper you want in your fam
ily Why not try it a dollars worth
at this cut price I
Real Estate Filings
The following real estate filing
have been made in the county clerks
office since our last report
George S Durbin et ux to
John Harrison wd to 7 S
in C Esther park Bartley 1600 00
Clide L Wickwire et ux to
Clarence C Purinton wd to
3 in 21 1st McCook 2250 00
Elizabeth McCart to Harvey
Burgess wd to 8 in 8 Leb
anon 500 00
Lincoln Land Co to J Fred
rick Pfief wd to 2 in 2
7th McCook 250 00
Isabelle Dolph et cons to Ben
B Smiley w d to part sw
qr 24-1-28 3000 00
Flora C Morgan to Chas
Richardson w d to ne qr
32-3-26 4600 00
Lincoln Land Co to Albert M
Collins wd to 4 in 23 2nd
McCook 275 00
S A Dole et cons to John T
Baughan wd to nw qr 27-1-30
4800 00
J H Stephens et ux to Claud
C Porter wd to pt 1 2 3
in 30 McCook 1400 00
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Mrs F Marti St Joe Mich says
Foleys Honey and Tar saved her
little boys life She writes Our
little boy contracted a severe bron
chial trouble and as the doctors
medicine did not cure him I gave
him Foleys Honey and Tar in whicli
I have great faith It cured the
cough as well as the choking and ga
ging spells and he got well in a shoifc
time Foleys Honey and Tar has
many times saved us much trouble
and we are never without it in the
house A McMillen
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It is not the quantity of food taken
but the amount digested and assimi
lated that gives strength and vitality
to the system Chamberlains Stom
ach and Liver tablets invigorate the
stomach and liver and enable them
to perform their functions naturally
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The Gratitude of Elderly People
Goes out to whatever helps give
them ease comfort and strength
Foley Kidney Pills cure kidney and
bladder diseases promptly and gives
comfort and relief to elderly people
A McMillen
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and specifications for any class of
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them for information
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Tribune want ad help you find it
It has helped others why not you
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